May 23, 2004, Sunday

Alice Randall knows how to drill into a nerve. ''Why is it that so many black women are troubled by interracial relationships?'' she asked the women from the Brooklyn chapter of Links, a service organization made up mostly of African-American...

March 16, 2004, Tuesday

The estate of Margaret Mitchell agreed yesterday to settle its copyright infringement lawsuit against the Houghton Mifflin Company over the publication of ''The Wind Done Gone,'' a first novel by the writer Alice Randall that is set on the same...

The Prevailing Wind Eight nonjudicial judges have had their say about ''The Wind Done Gone,'' the novel that revisited the Civil War epic ''Gone With the Wind'' from the point of view of black slaves instead of Southern aristocrats. And the...

A federal appeals court in Atlanta sent a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed against the publisher of ''The Wind Done Gone'' back to a lower court yesterday but expressed doubts about its eventual success. The three-judge panel of the United...

The trustees of Margaret Mitchell's estate may be wishing they had left well enough alone. Their lawyers have fought for weeks to block the publication of a novel that revisits the plantation setting of the Mitchell novel ''Gone With the Wind''...

APRIL was the cruelest month for Wendy J. Strothman, an otherwise mild-mannered Houghton Mifflin Company publisher who went to the mat hopping mad in Federal District Court in Atlanta on behalf of ''The Wind Done Gone,'' the unauthorized, heavily...

Lawyers for the estate of Margaret Mitchell asked a federal appeals court today to overturn a ruling that permitted the publication of a parody of her novel ''Gone With the Wind.'' Last week, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of...

June 1, 2001, Friday

Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about a federal appeals court ruling that allows the publication of a parody of ''Gone With the Wind'' misidentified one company that signed a brief supporting the author, Alice Randall, and omitted...